Improvement in automatic barrel



dinard @States S. C. CATLIN, 0F CLEVELAND OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 99,159, dated January 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN .AUTOMATIC BARREL-FILLERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom tt may concern.'

Be it known that I, S. C. CATLIN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automatic Barrel-Fillers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

This invention relates to a new and improved apparatus for lling barrels and other vessels with oil or other liquids, and consists in providing certain mechanical devices, and arranging themin such a manner that the dow of oil or liquid into the barrel shall be automatically stopped, when the barrel is filled, or nearly lled.

It also consists in a device combined therewith, for drawing oils or liquids from the reservoir, for testing or other purposes, as will be hereinafter' more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 represents a vertical section of the barrelfiller, showing the parts of which it is composed, arranged in their proper positions.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of fig. 1, through the line :v x, showing a top view of the mechanism for tripping the stop-valve.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This apparatus consists of a main tube, A, the stopvalve chamber B, the induction-tube C connected therewith, and the branch-tube D, enclosing the adjusting and tripping-device, together with the floatlever rods, and stop-valve, referred to hereafter.

The lbarrel-ller is represented as when in use.

E represents the barrel, and

F, the surface of the duid in the barrel. l

G is a oat, which operates inthe tube H, which tube is placed within the tube A, as seen in the draw- The course of the liquid from the reservoir or tank into the barrel is indicated by the arrows. The ow of the liquid intothe barrel is stopped automatically by the drop-valve I, on to the seat J. This valve is attached to the rod K, and is supported on the hook L byv means of the shoulder m.

N is an aperture within the barrel, through the tubes A and H into the oat-chamber C. The oat is made to act upon the hook L, and cause the valve I to drop, by means of the lever P,with which the doat-rod q is connected, at the point It. The fulcrum of the leverrod P is at S.

T is fa rod, which connects the hook L' with the lever P, at the point U. The point U may be the end of an arm from the lever P. In this example'of my invention, it is a pin in the periphery of a disk, V, through which the lever passes.

W is a movable weight on the end of the lever I), for properly balancing the oat.

It will be seen that the'connecting-rod T is adjustable on the pin U, by means of the holes x, and that the cap y covers an orifice in the tube I), through which the adjustment is made.

As the apparatus is shown in the drawing, theliquid in the barrel will continue to rise, andthe float will remain stationary in its chamber O, until the liquid ows into the float-chamber, through the aperture N, and buoys up the oat. When this takes place, the long end of the lever will be raised, which will throw the rod T to the right, and draw the hooks L from the shoulder m, and valve I will drop and shut oif the flow of the liquid into the barrel. The quantity of liquid dischargedinto the barrel depends upon the position or height of the oat, and this position is varied by raising or lowering the iloat on its own rod.

The holes as, in the connecting-rod T, are for fixing the proper position of the rod. By means of this arrangement, the barrel may be lled to any desired height. A gallon (more or less) may be left out of the barrel, as may be desired.

At each adjustment, the float will be properly halanced,by means of the movable weight W, so that the exact moment for tripping the valve, and stopping the iow, may be insured.

The Valve-rod K drops down into the tube z. The tripping-hook L, and its pointof connection with the rod T, as well as the joint' It, is contained in the tube a', immediately above the float-chamber O. Y This tube a. may be closed at its top, if desired, so as to exclude the liquid.

B' is a tube, which is connected with the cap C' of the valve-chamberB, by a screw-joint, as seen at D.

E is a tube within B', which is kept in position by means of the cap F', and the hollow conical foot-piece g, on its lower end. The valve-rod K passes through thisconical end, and into the tube E', as seen in the drawing.

' h is an orifice in the tube E', which admits -liquid from the chamber B.

i is a cap on the tube j is a screw-valve on this cap; and

k is an orifice in the cap, through which liquid from the tube E' may bev discharged, when the screw-valve is raised.

This arr-an gement is designed for illing vials with the liquid for testing, or other purposes. This is done when the valve is depressed or down, so that the liquid can dow freely from the valve-chamber B, into the outer tube B. The inner tube E' is allowed to play freely through thc cap F, and the valve I is raised by means of this vertical movement, so that the shoulder fm on the valve-rod is brought above the trippinghook L.

n is a collar On the valve-rod K, by which the valve and rod are supported On the bottom of the hollow conical end y of the tube E. When the tripping-hook L has caught the shoulder m, so that the valve is supported thereby, the tube Eis forced down to the position seen in the drawing.

The advantages of this apparatus for filling barrels or other similar vessels are many, and must be Obvious tO all. vIt is perfectly sure in its Operation, and stops the flow at the desired point of time, filling the barrel entirely, or leaving it unfilled to any desired dey gree. When Once adjusted, it is perfectly self-acting, requiring no attention until it is to be transferred to another barrel; consequently, a single attendant may attend to a number of the fillers, keeping them all in operation at the same time, thus greatly facilitating the operation of transferring liquid from a tank or reservoir to other vessels.

Having thus describedl my invention,

may be discharged, for testing or other purposes, substantially as set forth.

4. The tubes E' and B', collar n, and hollow conical end g, arranged in combination with each other, and with the'valve I, substantially as described, and for the purposes described.

S. C. GATLIN.-

Witnesses:

J OHN VOGEL, Jr., GEO. ARNOLD. 

